Editing Dhu Husam (section)

===Imam’s Conversation with al-Hurr===
Al-Hurr said, “I do not know what letters you are talking about.” Al-Hussain immediately ordered ‘Uqbah B. Sam’an to bring out two saddlebags full of letters. Al-Hurr said, “I am not among their senders, and I have been ordered not to part with you once I meet you till I bring you to Ibn Ziyad in Kufa.” 

Imam Al-Hussain said, “Death is closer to your reach than that.” He ordered his companions to ride, and the women, too, rode, but al-Hurr forbade them from going to Medina, so Al-Hussain said to al-Hurr, “May your mother lose you! What do you want of us?” “Should anyone else other than you say so to me,” al-Hurr responded, “and he is in the same boat as you now are, I would not hesitate to let his mother lose him no matter who he may be! 

By Allah! I have no way to refer to your mother except in the very best of way of which we are capable. But let us come to a mid-way between both of us which neither leads you to Kufa nor takes you back to Medina till I write Ibn. Ziyad, perhaps Allah will grant me safety and not try me with anything relevant to your issue.” After a short while he added saying, 

“I admonish you to remember Allah with regard to your life, for I testify that should you fight, you will be killed.” Al-Hussain said, “Are you scaring me with death?! Will your calamity really lead you to kill me? In that case, let me say what the brother of the Aws [tribe] said to his cousin who desired to support the Messenger of Allah, peace of Allah be upon him and his Progeny:

I shall proceed: There is no shame 

A man to his death goes. 

If he truly intends so and 

As a Muslim struggles, 

And if he the righteous with his life consoles, 

Leaving a depraved one, opposing a criminal. 

So if I live, I shall not regret or be shamed 

But if I die, surely I shall not be blamed 

Humiliation suffices you if you accept to be oppressed.” 

Having heard him say so, al-Hurr stayed away from him. Al-Hussain, therefore, rode with his companions in one area while al-Hurr and his fellows rode in another .<ref>al-Mufid, Irshad. On p. 193, Vol. 2, of his book Al-Manaqib, Ibn Shahr Ashub adds the following verses to them:

My soul do I present, not sparing it, To meet a lion in the battle, a charging one.</ref>